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35. C. fulva (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong-oval distant with 
exserted stalks, bracts foliaceous with elongated sheaths, glumes 
acute not mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous ribbed smooth with a 
straight rough-edged bifid beak, nut obovate trigonous nearly 
smooth, st. acutely triangular rough-edged. — E. B. 1295. — St. 
about a foot high. Barren spike spiv.dleshaped, acute : glumes 
obtuse. Lowest bract frequently, but not always, reaching up 
to the barren spike. Root sometimes creeping. — /3. hornscliK- 
chiana ; fertile spikes oblong on longer stalks more distant, fr. 
more inflated and more strongly ribbed, st. bluntly triangular 
smooth except sometimes near the top, lowest bract longer than 
its own spike. C. speirostachya Sm. E. B. S. 2/70. C. horn- 
schuchiana H. b. 40., Koch, Kunth, &c. Probably a distinct 
species. — Bogey places. /3, Peatv bogs chiefly on mountains. 
P. VI. 
36. C. externa (Good.) ; fertile spikes oblong near together 
subsessile lower one rather distant with a short included stalk, 
bracts very long foliaceous, glumes mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous 
ribbed narrowed below with a straight smooth-edged bifid beak, 
nut oblong-elliptical narrowed at both ends triangular smooth. — 
E. B. 833. Schk. V. Xx. 72. H. b. 32.— St. usually curved, 
8 — 12 in. high, bluntly triangular, smooth. Barren spike nearly 
sessile, blunt, its glumes blunt. L. and bracts very narrow, con- 
volute, long. — Marshes, chiefly near the sea. P. VI. 
37. C. pallescens (L.) ; fertile spikes ovate or oblong with ex- 
serted stalks approximate, bracts foliaceous, glumes mucronate, 
fr. ovate-oblong convex on both sides striated obtuse : beak 0, nut 
linear-elliptical narrowed at both ends trigonous. — E. B. 2185. 
Schk. Kk. 99- H. b. 44. — St. slender, acutely triangular, rough 
above, 1 — \\ foot high. Spikes obtuse, pale green, the barren 
one sessile darker. — Marshy places. P. VI. 
38. C. punctata (Gaud.) ; fertile spikes erect cylindrical with 
slightly exserted peduncles particularly the lowest, bracts with 
sheaths, glumes ovate shortly awned, /?•. ovate tumid obsoletely 
ribbed pellucidly punctate with a linear bidentate smooth beak, nut 
ovate-rhomboidal attenuated at both ends triangular rough. — 
H. b. 37. Kunze Suppl. Schk. 6. — St. smooth, 1 — 2 feet high, 
slender. Spikes distant or the upper ones approximating ; pe- 
duncles usually slightly, the lowest often greatly exserted, rough; 
lowest spike frequently very distant. Glumes pale red with a 
broad green longitudinal dorsal band. Fr. pale, nut brown. 
Barren spike with blunt glumes. — Marshy places near the sea. 
Banks of the Menai near Bangor. Guernsey. P. VI. E. 
39- O. distans (L.) ; fertile spikes remote erect oblong, pe- 
duncles mostly shorter than the sheaths of the bracts, glumes 
mucronate, fr. ovate triquetrous equally ribbed smooth rough at 
